Allardyce - Entrapment?

andy-hughes | 10:01 Thu 29th Sep 2016 | News

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As the shock waves settle on Mr Allardyce's activities, and the results, he, and several other media and football figures are talking about 'entrapment' by The Telegraph - as though he is somehow an innocent victim of skulduggery.

My view is that he would not have been 'caught' if he was behaving properly, and the public interest justifies the methods used - and he would save some dignity if he kept quiet and let everything take its course.

What do you think?

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agchristie

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I have no sympathy whatsoever for Mr Allardyce. Perhaps his Houdini act saving Sunderland from relegation has gone to his big head (a club that was reeling from the Johnson affair). He states that it was his 'dream job'. Entrapment or not, a person in his privileged position has to be whiter than white and lead by example in ethics, discipline, motivation and...

14:42 Thu 29th Sep 2016

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andy-hughes

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Sqad - //Mikey....have you ever suggested or given a BA to someone who disagreed with you? //

Who would? It wouldn't be a 'best answer' then would it!

Sqad

Mikey.....OK. I thought when i started on AB, that BA meant just that,,,the BEST ANSWER....but slowly i have learnt ;-)

Cheese? no idea at all. He would call me "boy" and say, cut me a piece of BUNG. That's the best I can do Mikey.

RandyMarsh

He was not bleating either
:)

agchristie

Regarding BA's, I think it is possible if one was minded to view an opposing answer as being influential and well argued to the point that it made you question the validity of one's own answer.

Peter Pedant

// My granddad was a labourer on the railways (LNER as it was then)//sqad

he didnt work in Newton heath marshalling yards did he ?

"bung" sounds pretty cheap then
are you sure it didnt come from anglo indian slang - bhang ?
cheese as the opium of the people etc.....

[ yeah yeah I know a thousand ABers will ask loudly what anglo indian does when its at home, whether they are offering reductions on the takeaways this week-end. and someone will quip: I put anglo indian foo de google translator and it didnt fink anyfing...]